NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, August 13 (game #163)
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Are you halfway through Tuesday’s Strands puzzle and finding it a bit tricky? Need just a couple more answers to complete it? Then read on for my hints below.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out myWordle today,NYT Connections todayandQuordle todaypages for hints and answers for those games.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a dailytoday’s Wordle answercolumn and a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.
NYT Strands today (game #163) - hint #1 - today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
•Today’s NYT Strands theme is…Look it up!
NYT Strands today (game #163) - hint #2 - clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
NYT Strands today (game #163) - hint #3 - spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
•Find the answers
NYT Strands today (game #163) - hint #4 - spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First: bottom, 3rd column
Last: top, 2nd column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #163) - the answers
The answers to today’s Strands, game #163, are…
One for the kids here, with five answers that few people under the age of about 25 will probably have ever used. OK, that’s a little OTT; online dictionaries obviously exist. But ALMANAC? HANDBOOK? ATLAS? I asked my own teens (both 14 years old) and they had no clue what an ALMANAC was, at least. The other two they had heard of, but whether they would have thought to guess them is a different matter.
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I had no such problems, as a creature of advanced years, and solved this one fairly swiftly. Though again, I’m not sure I’d have got ALMANAC if it wasn’t the only word left by the time I got to it…
How did you do today?Send me an emailand let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday 12 August, game #162)
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands,complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).
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